General Music Chat

Go on, I know some of you are dying to bust this wide open.

Do your thing and don't be shy.

No, & I don't care how many great rhythms you can pull out of that thing, it sounds like fingernails on a blackboard to me. (I must admit I like the way it was used in that movie "Bullworth," though. Cracked me up.)

Why oh why couldn't they just have stuck with the damned washboard (which is only SLIGHTLY better)?

Absolutely not!

I would concider a turntable player an artist, "Musician" is such a broad term any way (one who composes, conducts or perfoms music). Yes or no depending on intentions, application and any number of other factors.

would you call someone who does the beat-box a percussionist?

NO. PFFT!

No and for that matter I don"t consider rappers to be musicians either. But they ARE artists in their own way. They are creating something (NOT music) and making lots of money (way more than I am anyway). Later...

Only if he can use it to pick his guitar.

beat box = a box that you stick rap types in and whack with a baseball bat ?

Let me see if I can put this delicately.EFFF NO!!!. ..mmmm, Nope, I dont guess I can. ..

As much as the guy or gal who plays the radio.

I just hope what ever he or she is scratching on is a old Michael Jackon or Bolton album..Or Brittney Spears but she is not old enough..

I dont really care if the dj is part of an actual group of musicians I saw a local band where the mixer was working the hardest to make the sound happen, but if its just a guy spinnin three records scratching and patching it may not be music and I think techno is okay

I would say yes def... but how much of a musician? - debatable

if you compose on the staff are you a musician?
what if you just hum songs in your mind?
you've never played an instrument but you are a musician?
if you write in fruity loops are you a musician?
if you sing?
if you do beet box with your mouth?

what about if you just press these buttons and each button has a recorded sound that you didn't originally create but you put the sounds together in a new and rythmic pattern (keyboardist)?

what about folks who play the theramin?

anything that demonstrates a small amount of skill in terms of producing melody, harmony, and beat qualifies to a lessor or greater degree in my book.

If a guy can chip your teeth does that make him a dentist?

If'n ya ain't gonna spell like an englshman, yor opinion do not count fer squat.


I don't do ebonics, jr.